Bari to Patras Ferry

Two departures a day, six hours apart, and a timetabled crossing of 1,020 minutes. Superfast Ferries leaves Bari at 13:30 and again at 19:30, every day of the week, for the long run down the Adriatic and round into the Ionian to Patras. Fares start around €55.

Two sailings that do different jobs

The afternoon boat spends the evening and the night at sea and lands the following morning. The half past seven departure pushes the whole passage into the night and the next day. Neither is a shortened version of the other — the choice decides which end of your journey is eaten by travel.

Check whether a quoted duration includes the clock change

Greece runs an hour ahead of Italy. On a crossing of this length the published figure and the time actually spent aboard can differ by that hour depending on how the operator counts, so a seventeen-hour listing is not necessarily seventeen hours at sea. Worth confirming when you are planning a connection at the far end.

A vehicle route, not a passenger shuttle

This corridor exists largely for freight and for drivers heading between Italy and Greece, which is why it runs twice daily year-round rather than seasonally. Cabins are the norm on the overnight sailing; deck passage is the cheap option and the reason the fare starts as low as it does.